Method of making embossed reproductions of oil paintings



W. OPEL.

I METHOD OF MAKING EMBOSSED REPRODUCTIONS OF OIL PAINTINGS. APPLICATION FILED OCT. n. ma.

1,412,131; P t Apr. 11-, 19221 wag UNITE s WALTER OPEL, or miirzre, GERMANY.

METHOD OF MAKING- EMBOSSED REPRODUCTION S OF OIL- PAINTINGS.

Application filed October 11, 1918. Serial No. 257,818.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER OPEL, a citizen of the German Empire, residing at Leipzig, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Method of Making Embossed Reproductions of Oil Paintings, of which the following is a specification.

Y Reproductions of oil paintings in form of pictures or postcards are known, which have been embossed to appear as if having the grain of the oil paint, as such is applied by the artist. Such reproductions therefore have raised portions, and on the reverse slde of the reproductions there will naturally be tures it is immediately apparent that the back of the picture.

corresponding indents.

With postcards it would be nconvenient to have to wrlte across such lndented portions. With picpicture is-an embossed reproduction. These drawbacks are avoided by covering the back of the plctures with a plec'e ofpaper, wheres bythe back assumes a plane surface. Such covering with-paper is performed either by coating the back ofthe picture with an adhesive and pressing the piece of covering paper against it, or the covering paper is coated with the adhesive and pasted to the In both instances the moisture'of the adhesive will penetrate into the indents and this moisture will cause the for the chromoprinting. Such paper was heretofore used for making the postcards TENT once; I

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Apr. 11, 1922 V vject is'to prepare the paperparticularly well and pictures intended as reproductions of oil paintings. Thesepapers are, however, of a highly hygroscopic character a-nd will 'absorb the moisture of the adhesive in large, quantities, so'that the embossing will eX- ceedingly lose in fineness. V r

This disadvantage is, now, obviated by rendering the paper indifferent towards moisture before it is embossed, by applying to the back of the paper tobe embossed an insulating material'such as paint, varnish,

silicious varnish or the like; The subsequently embossed paper may then be backed 1 In the accompanying drawing, a section 1 in the usual manner.

through an embossed picture is represented the insulating material. C is the coat of ad resembling thefbrushfgraino-f an oil painting. A is the embossed paper] with the oil paint grain. The'picture side is" at (0. 6 is hesiv e applied after embossing and D is'the also be built up of severallayerswhich are then embossed together.

backing paper. The paper A need notnec essarily consist of one single layer-but may a What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United 'States, is :-T

The: method of making embossed 'rep roductions of oil paintings, consisting in applying to the back of the printed paper intended to be embossed a moisture-insulating material, embossing such paper and back ing the same in the usual manner;

.In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses;

WALTER, OPEL.

Witnesses BER'rHoLD MONASCH, GERTRUD FREUND. 

